BIRR PARISH
Parish Office: 057 9122028
Parish Mobile: 086 3531955
Website: www.stbrendansbirr.ie
Email: [email protected]
Priest on duty this week: Fr. Michael Reddan
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Fr. David Carroll—057-9120098
Fr. Tony Cahir—057-9120097
Sunday Mass Times
Fr. Michael Reddan—057-9121757
Vigil: 7.30 p.m.
Fr. Pat Gilbert—057-9120098
Sun: 8.30 a.m., 10.30 a.m.
St. Brendan’s, Birr
Parish Office Opening Hours
Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
9.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Church of the
Annunciation, Carrig
Sunday Mass Times
9.30 a.m.
and 12 noon
10KM Fundraising Fun Run/Walk on Sunday 28th June at
3.00 p.m. in aid of St. Brendan’s Park Development and Birr
Vintage Week and Arts Festival. Register with a publican.
Remembered in Mass this week
Sat 20th
7.30 p.m.
Gamblers Anonymous - meetings on Saturdays at 12
noon in the basement of the Presbytery, John’s Mall. Call
089 4607287 or more details.
AA Meetings are held in the basement of the Presbytery
every Thursday evening at 8.00 p.m.
Sun 21st
12 noon
Michael Lally (MM)
Eva Delaney (1st Anniversary)
Mollie Kennedy (1st Anniversary)
Michael & Margaret Loughnane,
sons Seamus & Michael & daughter
Brigid Balfe
Carrig
9:30 am
William & Nora O’Brien
Wed 24th
10.00 a.m. Letitia Tierney
Fri 26th
10.00 a.m. Frank McGilton
Sat 27th
7:30 pm
Denis Murphy
Alf Regan & family
Sun 28th
10:30 am
Rosemary Mooney (MM)
Paddy & Margaret Kelly
Wall family
12 noon
Joe Scully
Spain & Mulvey families
Birr Active Retirement will be attended by Region Development Officer Maureen McCormack on Thursday 25th
June in the Resource Centre in Glebe Street, Birr. All welcome to attend.
Annual Slieve Bloom Mountain Walk will take place on
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Saturday 27 June in aid of Offaly Hospice and the Irish
Cancer Society All participants please meet at the Clonaslee Community Centre for 11am. Sponsorship cards are
available or a donation can be made on the day. For more
information or sponsorship cards please contact Offaly Hospice @ 0868595046 or Joe Fitzpatrick on 0858810382.
The Carers Association are providing the QQI (FETAC)
Level 5 Activities of Living Patient Care module in Tullamore on the 16/07/2015 for more info contact the training
unit on 057 93 70221. Occupational First Aid Refresher
will be scheduled on demand.
Parish Fund Counters for June 28th
C, Scully and J. Gilmartin
Basket Collection Last Sunday - €1,705
Sponsored By
Drain Away
Tel: 087-0631831
www.drainawayireland.com
Building Cleaning
Drain Cleaning
Matt & Helena Gaynor
10.30 a.m. Kathleen Grant
Patrick Nevin
Albert & Mary Kate Watkins
Oisin Watkins-Carroll
DOCHAS Offaly Cancer Support Group Outreach Centre,
Drop In centre, Market Sq. Tues 11am-3pm. Phone Support
087 2777728 and 057 9328268.
Pilgrimage to Knock to Our Lady’s Shrine in County Mayo
will take place on Sunday 5th July with a coach departing
from Emmet Sq. Birr at 9:20 am. Bookings are available at
Whelehans in the Main Street. Cost of €15 for adults and
€7.50 for child.
8.30 a.m.
Eamon ‘Sambo’ Kelly
Betty & Tom Lally
Willie & Nancy & Fergal Parkinson
Denis Tierney
Tommy & Mary Brummell
O.A. Devassy
Míle Buíochas to all who helped in the celebrations of ordination and first Mass last weekend. There are so many to
thank that we would fill the newsletter; I hope you will all accept these words and blessings to you for your part in making last weekend so joyous and memorable.
We continue to pray for one another, for Fr Michael and all
the priests of our parish and we pray too that others may be
generous in their response to the call of vocation.
We would like to appoint a permanent sacristan for the Church of the Annunciation Carrig. At present there are two people who have given generously of their time to maintain
the sacristan's duties. If you are interested in the position please contact Fr David in confidence before the end of June. This is a non-salaried position but expenses will be covered.
We continue to pray for Fr Tony and all who are sick at this time. If anyone
wishes to write to Fr Tony you are welcome to leave your note or card into
the Parish Office and we will forward it to him.
Our parish mission will run from 26 September to 4 October; planning is ongoing and we
still seek people to co-ordinate the accommodation of the mission team and to support
the publicity and advertising. Please contact the parish office or any of the parish team if
you can lend a hand; job descriptions are available online at www.stbrendansbirr.ie
We are grateful to all who have offered accommodation and there are only a few extra
beds needed at this time. The job of the accommodation co-ordinator will be to assign
rooms as necessary.
Please Pray for the Souls of
Michael McGarry,
Paddy Buckley,
Noel Quirke, brother of Imelda Cloonan,
Teresa Robb, sister of Bernadette Carroll,
O.A. Devassy
Weekday funeral Masses are now at 11.00
a.m. On the day of a funeral Mass there will be no
10.00 a.m. Mass. Any 10.00 a.m. Mass intention
that has been announced will be transferred to the
11.00 am funeral Mass or may be switched to a different date. We ask for your understanding as the
new arrangements come into place.
Thanks to all who have returned Garda Vetting forms - we will update you as soon as
clearance is received.
Cemetery Masses take place on the 16th of July in Clonoghill and 23rd of July in Carrig.
All welcome to attend.
A Priests collection will be taken up at masses next weekend, 27th and 28th of June.
Your generosity to this collection will be very much appreciated. Distributers are asked to
collect their envelopes from behind the altar after Mass. Many thanks.